Is there any free tool that improves Intellisense and provides code snippet in vc++ 2008? Please don't post commercial tools
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No, not that I am aware of.
Can you explain what you would like to see improved in the intellisense engine? It's possible some of the behavior you are seeing is a bug that we may be able to help you work around if you can detail what's going on.
JaredPar
2009-06-19 13:35:57
I am missing auto complete should invoke with out pressing ctrl+space at beginning of words and relevance of identifying method name like 'getName()' just by typing 'name'
yesraaj
2009-06-19 15:41:56
+7
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In my experience the intellisense in VS is excellent, when it works. Whether through some quirk of how projects are set up, or a bug in VS, I don't know. But often on larger projects it ceases to work properly. I have not yet encountered that with Visual Assist.
I would add that it has additional features, like support for refactoring (renaming, creating method declaration/implementation, etc). Intellisense for file names is also a powerful feature.
Cătălin Pitiș
2009-06-19 16:15:20
VA is awesome but it isn't free. IMHO it's worth its price (I just paid my yearly $99 maintenance fee yesterday!) The refactoring/renaming and improved syntax highlighting are features I use everyday.
jwfearn
2009-06-19 18:58:02